[Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This is a State Department cable that was included in the FBI\u2019s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department\u2019s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency\u2019s designations.<\/p>\n [The person in this serial whose name is deleted is DEA agent Briggs. While it is deleted in the text, the subject line of the memorandum includes it. The deleted information from the memorandum \u2013 designated by brackets \u2013 which is known to the editor has been indicated by red type.]<\/em><\/p>\n UNCLASSIFIED FBB 138<\/p>\n [Listing of agencies receiving informational copies on pdf]<\/p>\n 0 141816Z DEC 78 1. As Department is aware the GOG [Government of Guyana] is still considering an outstanding request from the U.S. Secret Service that their agents be permitted to come to Georgetown to interview the survivors of Peoples Temple. Approval of this request was first granted and then withdrawn on December 9-10. Cabinet level task force in Jonestown still “has the request under consideration.” FBI is also anxious to obtain permission from the GOGMZO [likely \u201cGOG to\u201d] conduct interviews with Jonestown survivors still in Guyana. This request is also outstanding.<\/p>\n 2. It was he certainly appreciates DEA\u2019s interest in having Special Agent [name deleted] [Briggs<\/span>] travel to Guyana for the purpose set forth in reftel. However, if such visit is to be fruitful it will depend upon the full cooperation of his Guyanese counterparts. It is essential therefore that prior GOG concurrence be obtained before Special Agent [Briggs<\/span>] travels to Georgetown.<\/p>\n 3. Embassy would propose to raise the prospect of a<\/p>\n UNCLASSIFIED visit by Special Agent [Briggs<\/span>] as soon as the outstanding requests of the Secret Service and the FBI have been dealt with by the GOG.<\/p>\n 4. Comment: GOG is still acutely sensitive about the entire subject of Jonestown, including its handling of the affair. Cheddi Jagan\u2019s Daily Mirrorsyas [likely \u201cMirror has\u201d] already strongly criticized the government for the “large number of US Secret Service men, soldiers in plainclothes and possibly agents of the CIA moving freely on the soil of our independent and sovereign nation.” GOG cooperation has been very good and forthcoming up until now but articles such as the one in Jagan\u2019[s] Mirror will cause them to be cautious.<\/p>\n Burke [John Burke, American ambassador to Guyana]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Editor\u2019s note: This is a State Department cable that was included in the FBI\u2019s 2009 RYMUR release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act. It was not included in the State Department\u2019s own release, but we have included identifying information for it using the agency\u2019s designations. [The person in this serial whose name is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":87665,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116464,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100199\/revisions\/116464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFM AMEMBASSY GEORGETOWN
\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 8461
\nINFO AMEMBASSY CARACAS
\nCONFIDENTIAL GEORGETOWN 4283
\nE.O. 11652:
\nTAGS: SNAR
\nSUBJECT: PROPOSED TRAVEL OF DEA SPECIAL AGENT BRIGGS TO GUYANA
\nREF: STATE 314399.<\/p>\n
\nUNCLASSIFIED
\nPAGE 02 GEORGE 4283 161452Z<\/p>\n